A boat resting on dark water in the moonlight, Penha, 2004

PHOTOGRAPHS, MEMORIES & A LITTLE PRETENSION

Olhar
pretensioso

A pretentious gaze.
A very personal way of seeing.

Let your eyes wander

MOONLIT BOATPenha, 2004

07

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC INDEX

Keep looking.

Marcelo Kertész photographing himself in a mirror

Mirror Salvador, c. 1992

BEHIND THE GAZE

Marcelo
Kertész.

I’m still not sure whether I love photography or cameras more.

Photography runs in my family. My grandfather sent 16mm films from Brazil to his relatives in Hungary. My father always had a camera close by. At fifteen, I turned my bathroom in Salvador into a darkroom. Photography eventually led me to graphic design. The urge to look never left.

My mother taught me something else: photographs are meant to be lived with.

Say hello

Photographs and words adapted from Olhar Pretensioso / A Pretentious Gaze, 2021.

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